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WWI
Ch. 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the allied powers? | Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| What are the Central powers? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey |
| What act made "saying anything" to discourage the purchase of war bonds a crime? | Sedition Act |
| What act imposed fines up to $10,000 and a jail sentence ranging to twenty years on a persons convicted of aiding the enemy or obstructing recruiting? | Espionage Act |
| What board was given almost dictatorial power to allocate scarce materials, standardize productions, fix prices, and coordinate American and allied purchasing? | War Industries Board |
| What plan was designed to make the world " fit and safe to live in"? | Fourteen Points |
| Although allies seized the German colonies what were they required to render? | League of Nations |
| What was born when demands from all over the country came in that radicals be ruthlessly suppressed? | Red Scare |
| Who was president during World War I? | Wilson |
| What year did U.S. declare war on Central powers? | 1917 |
| What epidemic killed 600,000 Americans? | Influenza |
| When was the General Intelligence Division established within the Department of Justice? | August 1919 |
| What treaty was signed between allied powers following WWI that officially ended the war? | Treaty of Versailles |
| Who fired the shot that set off the war? | Gavrilo Princip |
| What terrorist group was Princip a part of? | Black Hand |